manual-labor

Generate static HTML pages from Chicken wiki manual files.

Command-line program

A command-line program called manual-labor is installed with the extension. It takes two arguments: the directory containing the man pages (such as /path/to/chicken-core/manual) and the output directory, which should be a new or empty directory.

All files in mandir are converted to HTML by way of svnwiki->sxml and chicken-doc-sxml->html. Uninteresting files (backup files, dotfiles, symlinks, directories) are skipped. Output files are named like the input, adding an .html extension.

Additionally, CSS and Javascript files in the support directory are copied into the output directory, and referenced from the HTML pages. These support files are included with the installed egg; by default, this is just manual.css. By using the --support option, you can point manual-labor to a customized support directory of your choosing.

High-level API

[procedure](generate-html-manual mandir outdir)

Process the wiki manual directory mandir and output HTML to outdir, which will be created if it does not exist. Also copies any support files from (manual-labor-support-dir).

[parameter](manual-labor-support-dir DIR)

Directory for manual-labor support files. Any .css and .js files in this directory are copied into the output directory and linked into the generated pages. (Order of inclusion is not currently guaranteed.)